Nowadays
more and more companies are offering the so called smart home/house services.
Today I would like to say a bit about this kind of services or maybe about the concept
of Smart housing.
Currently
technology is a lot cheaper than a few years ago. I am currently working at
Orange and a few days ago I had an opportunity to test these new technologies
in real environment.
Basic setup
contains a few devices responsible for getting information about temperature,
humidity, light and a few sensors which should warn us about danger like fire
and smoke. There is almost unlimited list of functions you can add to your
system but I would like to focus on basic ones.
Let’s say
our home is turning lights on when we come back home and turn them off when we
are going to sleep or when we simply want to. Controlling events is simple and
can be done with a simple smartphone or a tablet. Setting humidity and
temperature according to predefined settings is only one click action. Then we
have fridge which knows about our food customs and our shortage in supplies
what can be convenient for those with limited time.
If we are
going to holidays we have everyday reports about what is going on so we can
enjoy our free time and don’t need to worry about our home or apartment. What
is more we can see our apartment live over the internet.
Security
Every
solution which is based on computers can be hacked and automation systems are
not different in this matter. What then?
Here you
can see one of the simplest ideas of home automation but still very
interesting:
http://lifx.co/
Questions
1. Would you like to have home
automation system in your house/home/apartment?
2. What do you think about security of
this kind of solutions?
3. Have you ever seen or used the system like these mentioned above?
Sources used in this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation
http://home-automation-systems-review.toptenreviews.com/
http://www.avsforum.com/f/162/home-automation
Sources used in this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_automation
http://home-automation-systems-review.toptenreviews.com/
http://www.avsforum.com/f/162/home-automation
Comments
Not now, but maybe in the future, when this idea will be more developed and cheaper. I like the idea of fridge ordering food when there is shortage, or that it can detect danger.
2. What do you think about security of this kind of solutions?
I am pretty sure that if this systems are available now then few people had to check it thoroughly. Nothing is really 100% secure, so we shouldn't pick on something saying it could have security flaws.
3. Have you ever seen or used the system like these mentioned above?
Sadly no.
Hell yeah I would! Hey robot, make me some tea dammit!
2. What do you think about security of this kind of solutions?
Don't bring resoning into this! In no way this is not going to be an inconvinience to the NSa or some other letters from GOV
3. Have you ever seen or used the system like these mentioned above?
Yes I did and it was more than awsome! very limited for now, but still awsome!
Of course there is a matter of security mentioned in the presentation. As any technical system such system is not invulnerable to outside interference. But I think that biometric security is such a complex and hard to brake security measure that it could ensure the level of protection needed be everyday user. But system like that will not become common in a foreseeable future (10-20 years) in my opinion. Nowadays they are very expensive and not many people can afford them. But as any technology this one will also become available for almost everyone I a decade of two.
Simply not, I am superstitious when it comes to technology in everyday and very skeptic about technology to replace few aspect of everyday life chores.
2. What do you think about security of this kind of solutions?
Technology when normally used is safe, but You don't know what would happen with Your technologically filled house when goes down... I have seen too many horror movies to know where it is going :)
3. Have you ever seen or used the system like these mentioned above?
No. And I haven't seen such systems anywhere.
I think it can be pretty convenient in some situations, boiling water for tea when you enter your flat, turning lights off, controlling temperature.
2. What do you think about security of this kind of solutions?
This is a broader topic, because we have "internet of things" and every single aspect of life starting with wearable computing up to "smart home" systems or cars are full of new technology which means we are very dependent of 3rd party software and hardware.
3. Have you ever seen or used the system like these mentioned above?
No, not yet :)